Tag Archives: sigh

Sigh(t) Words

Posted on April 28, 2022 by whimsygizmo

We commit them to memory, wear them as articles of faith, don them like habits. Sky. Sea. Tree. Wild. Breeze. We take the ones that move us and groove them into our skin. We close our eyes and paint our fingers cobalt, emerald, saffron. Count … Continue reading →

Posted in April PAD 2022 | Tagged sigh, sigh language, sight words | 2 Comments

sigh language

Posted on April 3, 2021 by whimsygizmo

The best gesture of my brain is less than your eyelids’ flutter which says we are for each other – E.E. Cummings The earth laughs in flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box…Edie Brickell :: dandelion fluff … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged dandelion poems, Edie Brickell, Greek, language, Norse, sigh, sigh and silence, sign language, sky poems, sky songs, wishes | 7 Comments

{In which she writes after not writing for days and days and days}

Posted on July 29, 2020 by whimsygizmo

She runs to breathe, and be -lieves that things will get better with the dawn. She holds that fire in her heart and wishes upon it, knows these days are numbers, fleeting. She is equal parts lake ache and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged haven't felt like writing, Lake ache, not writing, pandemic poems, run one, sigh, sunrise | 6 Comments

(l)onely poem

Posted on March 8, 2017 by whimsygizmo

.. this poem is all by its lone -some self, some semblance of assem -bled phrases on a shelf. in a void. annoyed. this poem is a single sigh -lent scream, a scene from a one -act play with no … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged murder of crows, Poetic Asides prompts, sigh, this poem poems | 1 Comment

something more than someday, too.

Posted on October 3, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. she’s doing it again; layering her skin with doubt and promise, polishing the way she says I’m fine when she means to scream. she’s counting all the clicks and the tics and the tocks and the way that the … Continue reading →

Posted in moon poems | Tagged sigh, significant skin, smudge, songs of myself, still talking about the moon, tomorrow, waxing and waning, {talking to myself again} | 1 Comment

The Silent Sigh of Hospital Sheets

Posted on March 14, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. They say she is dying. We listen with wrenched hands, tightening lips. The clock on the wall ticks, clicks its way into our worn brains, as if we don’t already feel its dwindling voice in our own heartbeats. Staccato … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged dVerse, grief, haibun, hospital sheets, loss, moon, moon stones, poeming, Poetry, sigh, sky songs | 28 Comments

Mother

Posted on January 26, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. Does she long to shed her weary skin, sink within the caverned veins of silence? Does our violence make her sigh, pine to gather her pleated skirt hills and walk out on us? Can we heal her, feel her … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged dVerse, ecopoetry, Mother Earth, poeming, Poetry, question poems, sigh | 16 Comments

poem sprite

Posted on January 14, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. she’s an imp -ossible combination of phrase and space, kerning herself around the moon, an i am -bic pen. a wren. a crow contemplating murder, a murmuring swallow, a hum -ming bird following its own bright tail. sand is … Continue reading →